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Old Jul 17, 2011, 9:37 am
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gfunkdave
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Hmm, interesting. So using these numbers, a typical train of ~10 cars (as on the NYC subway) would use only about 35 kWh to get the one mile from, say, Union Square to Penn Station? That seems very low to me.
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